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Eric Rogers WR

I think you may have a point about this. And the odd thing is that it's not necessarily a condemnation of Austin. It may not even be a conscious though process by him. It happens to people all the time. He's set for life and doesn't need to scape and claw for a spot anymore. The ability to push yourself to the limit after you've already reached that important goal is a rare attribute in most human beings. I'm not saying he's dogging it or intentionally taking it easy, but maybe he doesn't have that fire anymore (because he doesn't need it as much).

This goes beyond sports. Look at musicians after they've "made it" . With success comes great things, but sometimes it's the bad things that made them better artists. It happens. I'm not expecting the Miles from a few years ago anymore, I do think he can still be a threat at the #2 though. Good thing we now have a 'sky's the limit' type in Dez to be our #1.

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According to Garrett they have needed to hold him back because he does too much. So it's possible if he's taking it easy that he's doing it to try and stay healthy.

Who cares if he's short. He showed last year he can get separation and make plays. If he can get his body in front of the CB, then he can get to the ball. It is what it is. If he sucks in preseason, he gets cut.

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He's a great player. I'm just talking about the position he gets on the ball. Sometimes he's in a position where he's open, but where the defender still has a good shot at intercepting the ball. This is due to his size. I've repeated myself, but I'm just clarifying what I was saying.

These anti-Miles posts are hilarious. I could put Miles efficiency stats from last year side by side with a lot of NFL highly heralded players, and I bet a lot of people would be shocked. Percy Harvin is going to take the Seahawks to the Superbowl, while Miles Austin is a huge disappointment who parties too much to care because he got paid. It's amazing how much perception and hype overrules facts.

One of these players just signed a gigantic contract on open market as the premiere wide receiver in free agency, one of them is regarded as maybe the most electrifying young big play WR in the league , and another is a fat has-been loser who parties too much because he got paid.

I'll wait and hold off on the excitement for Rogers until I see him in a few preseason games at least. Last year, Andre Holmes was the next greatest thing since sliced bread and then he failed his conditioning test and went downhill from there.

The big problem with Holmes was that for a big guy he just didn't have good hands to make contested catches and couldn't generate the separation to make uncontested catches. Thus in the end he was a pretty limited player.

From what i'm seeing in media wise to me he might make the team as the 5th of 6....Beasley as the 6th, but its still to early....he has to have consistant practices and do something during pre-season...

We need Miles this season. But he is likely gone after. Any decent two behind Dez should be able to put up similar stats to Austin without the constant owies. If Williams pans out this year he will be the 2 next year with youngsters Harris Beasley Rogers and or Coale behind him. Plus with our solid TE corps we don't need Austin's big salary after this year